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This week in the War on Voting: Don't mess with 93-year-old ladies in Pennsylvania
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Edited | COSDem May 05, 2012 06:06pm |
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| Media | Website - Daily Kos |
| News Date | Sunday, May 6, 2012 12:05:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Viviette Applewhite is 93 years old and has voted in nearly every election for the last 60 years. She marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Georgia. She has tried for years to obtain photo ID to no avail. Under Pennsylvania's new voter ID law, Ms. Applewhite's vote will not be counted. She is a plaintiff in our lawsuit to stop voter ID.
Mrs. Applewhite doesn't have a photo ID. Her purse was stolen and she hasn't been able to replace her identification because state officials can't find her birth certificate. And she won't be able to vote in Pennsylvania this fall. She's the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging the state's new voter suppression law that was recently filed by the ACLU, the Advancement Project, the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia (PILCOP) and the Washington, DC, law firm of Arnold & Porter LLP. |
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